The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-08-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

BALTIMORE Is agitating whipping-posts
for wife heaters.
BosToN police claim to have routed every
opium joint in that city.
SIMON CAMERON, the veteran Senator, is
being lionized in London.
COFFEE ICE CREAM is novelty; brown
bread ice cream is another
THERE are twenty murderers in the New
York Tombs awaiting trial.
A New YoRK miss teaches the art Of
walking, for ST. at Ocean Grove.
PoTAToEs are baked in the ground at Al
bion, Mich, so intense is the heat.
JUDGE GAsLIN, of Lincoln, Neb., has pre-
sided over thirty-three murder trials.
TEST examinations show that 5000 out of
the 10000 Alabama engineers are color
blind.
A FAILURE to vaccinate is punished at
Phoenix, Ariz., by $500 fine or six months
in Jail.
MARTIN DExHEIMER, of Hilsdale, N. Y,
has pig two years old that weighs 900
pounds.
The Kansas corn crop will not be rs
large as was anticipated on account of the
drought
BooDIER MCGAR1GLE has sailed from
Quebec to Gibraltar. He took passage as
dn invalid.
The Post-ofice Department has sensibly-
refused to name Nebraska Post office
"Old Maid"
The w. G. T. u, of Chicago, will erect a
$6OO,OOO building in that city for National
headquarters.
N. GOLDSMITH, of Maplewood, Sullivan
County, N. Y, has found petritied potato
in his garden.
A PAVEMENT has been laid around the
Washington Monument and the grading is
nearly completed.
CINCINNATI has subscribed sufficient
money to celebrate her centennial ami
versary next year.
IT is a strange epidemic of great fires
which has marked this heated term. Even
the grass is burned up.
The travel to Alaska is greater than
ever before known, and it is likely to in
crease from year to year.
THERE are in Minnesota 1901 licensed
physicians and 10 unlicensed. OF the
licensed 1,26S are regulars.
A WASHINGTON butcher has invented a
canvas hat for horses to keep off the SUMS
heat and prevent sunstroke
THERE is church in the east end of Lon
ried for seven pence ha' penny.
MRs HENRY BALDWIN, sixty-six, Birming-
ham, Conn.,, is suing for divorce from
her twenty-two-year-ol husband.
THE sugar crop of the Sandwich Islands
is estimated between 10000 and 100000
tons, as against $50, 600 tons last year.
A HEAVY drop in wallpaper is an
nounced; prices, it is said, promising to be
lower than at any time within ten years.
The It's grandchildren of noted Utah
apostle of polygamy are all under twenty
nine years of age, says the Phoebe New
Record.
The salmon pack of the Columbia river
is over 100000 cases short of last years.
yield and an advance in price may be
looked for.
Mrs. CRAWFORD, the Paris correspondent,
is said to earn $4,000 year by her pen
the largest sum made by any woman out
of journalism.
SAVANNAH has "a company of female
militia. The company is composed of
thirty-two young women, Captained by
Miss Annie Goeble.
In 1884 Great Britain sent COZ, ,32s gallons
of spirits to Western Africa, and Germany
7,l36, 263 gallons AT the same time America
Sehu vi ,4l2 Sallons
BROOKLYN has a horse-jockey who is
said to be worth $500, 600. This appears as
If horse-jockeying was almost as good as
running newspaper.
A sYDICATE of New York and Pittsburgh
capitalists have purchased one hundred
thousand acres of pine forest in South
Carolina and Georgia.
Is ti.ere anything syndicate won't uu-
dertakea One of these is just now offer
ing husbands to one hundred young
women if they will go into Northwestern
Texas.
THE doctors have discovered that per-
son who attempts to commit suicide by
taking laudanum can be saved by opening
the windpipe and pumping air artitcially
into the lungs.
THE Oldest bank note in existence is in
the Asiatic Museum, in st. Petersburg. 1t
ts Chinese, and is ,:3oO years old. 1t was
issued by the Imperial Bank, and was
written by hand.
A A"PRoFEssoR of swimming" who adver-
tises to teach the art in six lessons was
rescued from drowning at a seaside resort
few days ago. 1t is surmised that he got
beyond his depth
A,CRYsTAL of alum twelve feet high and
six feet in diameter was shown at the
royal jubilee exhibition in Manchester. 1t
is of the finest quality and is the largest
crystal ever made.
A PILE of snow was dumped in Franfort
street, New York, the other day, from a
warehouse under the Brooklyn bridge
arches, and the small boys engaged in q
regular SNOWFALL fight.
1T is estimated that the total production
of coffee in the world is about 600, 900 tons
to 650,000 tons, of which Brazil alone pro-
duces between $40, 600 and $4,000 tons and
Java 10000 to $4,000 tons.
The Gogebec iron mines, of Wisconsin,
have been transferred to the Bessemer
Consolidated Iron Company, OF New York,
of which Stephen w. Dorsey is president.
The price paid is =, $4,000
OWING to;the drought, water is sold by
the barrel in Burlington, ILL Teamsters
charge one dollar and upward for the de-
livery of the water. The city charges if-
teen cents a load for the water itself.
FREcKLzs, the Scientific Asoeriean says,
can not be entirely banished, but wash
made by dissolving three grains of borax
N five drachms each of rose water and
orange flower wafer is said to be excel
7snt for them.
IH WEIR, the pugilist known to fame as
Che Belfast Spider" acquired glory in
oostsn the other lnight by thrashing two
men who had insulted colored woman,
which shows that even pugilists may be